Biggest Cities you've driven in?

[Dark Horse]

Jakarta - road rules - none, actual roads - very few, offroad shuffle - often. Speeding fines? Never get fast enough to get pinged for them.

[Mark351]

Originally Posted by Martyvan

God bless police that make sensible decisions.... They wont book someone doing 90mph on an empty motorway, but will throw the book at someone even slightly exceeding the speed limit in a town... Or even someone driving somewhat eratically @ the speed limit anywhere!

Exactly. Tailgating and not keeping left are also big no-nos. Guess which country I prefer driving in!

[banarcus]

Originally Posted by RSgerry

London is mad. I drove through the middle to return the hire car to Marble Arch. Took ages and i ended up swaering at a lot of people. Milan is interesting. The traffic flows quite quickly which can be a bit daunting when the street signs are impossible to read, it is your first time in a left hand drive car and there are no lanes marked on the road. The Melbourne CBD right turn from the left lane affair is no fun either. Italian autostrada are awesome to drive on :-)

Hey RSgerry, was that the little Hertz place just north of Marble Arch? That was my first experience of driving a car in London. Actually London wasn't too bad after a while, I must've known every short cut from Heathrow back to Cricklewood/Kilburn after 12 months of driving there but its still hectic nonetheless.

For absolute shockers, drive in a foreign city that was built when noah was a boy and where they drive on the opposite side of the road, somewhere like Rome. Now that is bad....

[RAREV8]

Pretty much all of the east of Australia, London, Paris, Nice, Geneva, Marseilles,Corsica, Germany and all over UK.
Australia definately has the tightest driving rules....my missus made me calm down when I first arrived in Sydney- couldn't believe how slow we have to drive on open roads!
One funny thing in the UK that doesn't work here is if you are in the fast lane and the person in front doesn't move over, you indicate to the right as if to pas them and they generally realise that you want to pass rather than just following. This is great because you don't have to tailgate folk so they get the message-much safer.

[FordFan86]

Originally Posted by ltd

Yeah, I've heard there's a lot of congestion around Paris, about 5000 guys lined up to get their turn on her. (Sorry couldn't resist).

HAhahah

Alice Springs was fairly daunting for me....

[MaxinBlack]

Originally Posted by EFDream

Manila Phillipines, Nairobi Kenya are realy nightmares That I've had to drive in. I've had to drive an old ex british army Bedford 8 ton truck in Nairobi....that was an experiance!

I'm hearing you Nairobi peak hour rates as one of the most petrifying of my life. They have these mad taxis that duck in and out and the only time they stop is if they crash... then you have traffic delays. There are no rules it seems...

[punkin]

Rome - I learnt to drive a volvo into places that you wouldn't think a volvo would fit
London - I remember one sunday driving a friends combi from one side to the other and it kept on stalling!
Paris - this was interesting - I had my right foot in plaster and we were driving an english car
Monte Carlo (actually anywhere along the French Rivera - even worse during the film festival or the race)
Manila - TOTAL FREAKS ON THE ROAD!!!!!
Nairobi - hmmmmm nuts and I was with locals!

Actually strangest place to drive is Calais, just after you've gotten off the ferry and you have to remember to start driving on the wrong side of the road!

[Tee]

Originally Posted by NC 5ltr

Scotland and Ireland were fine except that they all love to tailgate even when you are doing 90mph in a 80mph zone.

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80mph zones? u mean 70mph :....people tailgate on the motorway cos thats about the only place where you can floor it an wont really get caught for speeding if u keep a look out...not that i tailgate lol

Ave driven in London an that was before the congestion charge an it was a bit erm insane...2 meny arrogant drivers an silly pedestrians wantin to cross the road when its not save

Same with Edinburgh on a weekend nite, i actually hit a person an they landed on my bonnet...not the other drivers to watch for but people lol

[exrtnz]

Last year i was driving around Baghdad, that was pretty crazy. Big holes in the roads from vehicle bombers and roadside bombs, and arabs trying to drive. It feels better with a automatic machine gun in the ready , you dont get many of them tailgating when they see that. Oh and no speed limits thats a bonus too.

[AC/DC]

I cant believe that I actually rented a car in LAX airport in LA and managed to drive to Beverley Hills where we stayed....

Then we drove it all the way to Las Vegas....

Looking back, , I cant believe we didnt prang it !

AC/DC

( it is very hard to describe the traffic ! )

[Craig]

San Fransisco by myself with written down directions and a map from the airport to hotel, the trip should of taken 1 hour tops. Well it took me 6 hours couldn't believe it peak hour traffic, road works, geez it was a nightmare.

LA is very easy, Dallas texas is also easy.

Sydney Australia a nightmare

[djjase]

Los Angelas, Las Vegas, Toronto, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Singapore, Auckland, Darwin, Alice Springs, Broken Hill

[RSgerry]

Originally Posted by banarcus

Hey RSgerry, was that the little Hertz place just north of Marble Arch? That was my first experience of driving a car in London. Actually London wasn't too bad after a while, I must've known every short cut from Heathrow back to Cricklewood/Kilburn after 12 months of driving there but its still hectic nonetheless.

haha, yes barnacus, that was the place. A tiny office and a garage door if I remember rightly. We had just got back from driving around Sussex and getting in through Lewisham on a Saturday morning was painful. We dropped our stuff in Vauxhall and drove from there to Marble Arch. I should have dropped the car back where I got it on the Old Kent Road and caught a bus / train / mini cab. Even walking would have been quicker.

[quest]

The wrong parts of Detroit, Stopped in the wrong area for a stop lamp and guys are trying to unbolt your wheels as you sit in the car!
I ended up running the red light!

[buickman]

Biggest city is NewYork city & cost a fourtune in toll fares. I got lost in peak hour traffic in Washington DC for hours & most dangerous city I've driven through is Gary Indianna south east of Chicago.

[V8R]

sydney in .au and auckland in nz.. sydney sucks ar5e.. yes im from the country

[Ryan]

Inner city Newcastle lol.

I haven't had much experience, in large city driving.

[jim1606]

Originally Posted by DeathXR

Agreed, London is nuts! Once you get on the freeways though, 90-100mph all the way!

London is easy!! i drive in london every wekend and yeah there is a lot of traffic and every driver is igroant but it is easy, although i do live in england so i guess i would find it easy, i think frankfurt is also very easy to drive in it is very regimented but for me NYC is the worst!!

Great pic Buickman.... looks like ummm fun..

[buickman]

Yep 5 lanes of traffic & about $30US in toll costs to get onto & off manhatten island & other parts such as Queens to just sit in traffic at least the LA & Washington DC freeways do move

[rodderz]

About 6 years ago the streets of Bali seem like a nightmare on first impressions, considering that really the only road rule is to "give way to anything bigger than you",. which is a lot of things if you're on a scooter

As for Melbourne, I've been here my whole life and never had to do a hook turn, with the city being a grid layout if you can get your way around without having to do them. Sydney was a shocker though, exits and entrances everywhere, signs every 50m, and concrete walls! Hobart is bad for 1-way streets

[henry 351]

1. London. Total waste of a hire car unless your travelling throughout UK. Use the tube/bus, much better.

2. L.A. congested, but car friendly. Keep clear of seedy suburbs though.

3. New York. Not as bad as I thought, just pick your travel time well.

4. Washington D.C. traffic so bad, it makes plucking nose hair fun.

Cities I have been driven in:-
Buenos Aires
Rio

Man, you can see where all the motor racing talent comes from in South America. We had one cabby feeding on opposite lock, tyres squealing on a curved freeway on ramp....

[bessxg]

We went around Europe in a 9 seater minibus. Pretty sure we got stuck on this road and had to reverse..


Rome and Milan are pretty nerve racking.

Dubai would have to be the worst. Petrol is as cheap as redskins, so why wouldn't they have the biggest engines they can, and why wouldn't they speed around the huge straight roads. They reckon one person gets killed each day on the main highway, just trying to cross the road.

[Juiceman]

The biggest city I have ever driven in is Brisbane because I'm only 18. But I have been in buses and the like through New York City, now that was just ridiculous...

[AUIIXR8_Tas]

Biggest I've driven in is Melbourne but I bypassed the city and took the Western Ring Rd and Westgate Fwy to St.Kilda then to the Spirit of Tas terminal. So I didn't really drive in the city itself, does that count?